Example sentences of "[adv] recovered from " in BNC.

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1 But I soon recovered from the chloroform and really appreciated the company of the other Mums .
2 He never really recovered from that setback he had . ’
3 By the time the fleet of ambulances arrived , Elfman had metamorphosized from popular hero to universal laughing-stock and he never fully recovered from the experience .
4 It never quite recovered from its destruction by Germanic tribesmen in the third century AD and in the medieval period the extensive Roman town remains were used as a quarry-source of building material .
5 Continuous eruptions created a wilderness of blast and air pockets ; they barely recovered from one sickening jolt before something hurled them in the opposite direction , or the plane stumbled into a vacuum and hit bottom fifty feet down .
6 The Callaghan government never recovered from the sense of ungovernability and social chaos heralded by the winter of discontent .
7 Eastern never recovered from a crippling strike in 1989 and now faces liquidation .
8 ‘ He never recovered from the way people treated us there , all that spite and unkindness and the way they spoke of you , Jim . ’
9 His health never recovered from an infection incurred in 1848 whilst he was dissecting a corpse ; he committed suicide in the following year bizarre incident took place in the life of the composer , Hector Berlioz ( 1803–69 ) , whose first wife was the Irish actress , Harriet Smithson .
10 Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin .
11 February 1702 , his horse stumbled on a mole hill in Hampton Court Park , and he never recovered from the fall , dying at Kensington on 8th .
12 Comacina never recovered from the beating .
13 Sir Bernard never recovered from the loss either .
14 The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned .
15 Derek 's father never recovered from this loss and refused to acknowledge the younger child 's previous or continued existence .
16 Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call .
17 WEALTHY Lady Alethea Savile never recovered from hearing her lover James Gilbey profess his undying love for Princess Diana , it was revealed yesterday .
18 WEALTHY Lady Alethea Savile never recovered from hearing her lover James Gilbey profess his undying love for Princess Diana , it was revealed yesterday .
19 WEALTHY Lady Alethea Savile never recovered from hearing her lover James Gilbey profess his undying love for Princess Diana , it was revealed yesterday .
20 Margery Kempe has been diagnosed as a case of religious hysteria who never recovered from puerperal fever , a victim of sexual repression , and as a hysterical personality who had psychotic episodes with pathological distortion of the sexual impulse .
21 The small business systems company , which never recovered from its capricious attempt to acquire Prime Computer Inc , says it needs the bankruptcy protection to put together a plan to restructure its balance sheet .
22 She never recovered from the demise of Britain 's first fascist organization and died a year later .
23 The disinherited lords themselves were ruined by Edward Balliol 's failure to hold his kingdom : Gilbert de Umfraville , for example , titular Earl of Angus , had had to mortgage a number of his manors to raise money for the invasion of Scotland and he never recovered from the collapse of his cause .
24 Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ .
25 The king never recovered from his fear of street noises .
26 Eccles died weeks before the ceremony , however , and she never recovered from the ‘ irrevocable blow ’ .
27 In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss .
28 Quigley never recovered from that evening .
29 An elderly woman who fell while in a Darlington nursing home never recovered from her injuries an inquest heard yesterday .
30 Second-placed Durham never recovered from a three goal blast in the first 20 minutes at Ryhope , going down 4–2 .
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